Maintenance Windows
What a Maintenance Window Is
A Maintenance Window is a scheduled time range during which alerts are suppressed for the checks you select — for example, during a planned deploy or scheduled maintenance. Crucially, the checks still run and record results during the window; only the notifications are silenced. This keeps your history complete while preventing expected, self-inflicted failures from paging your team.
Manage Maintenance Windows
Open the Maintenance Windows page to create and manage windows. For each window you set:
- A name.
- A start time and end time.
- A repeat option: does not repeat, daily, weekly (pick the weekdays), or monthly.
- An optional repeat until date, after which the recurrence stops.
- The targets the window applies to: all checks, specific checks, or specific check groups.
All Times Are UTC
Important: all maintenance window times are in UTC. Convert your local maintenance window to UTC when entering the start and end times so the suppression lines up with your actual work.
What Gets Suppressed
During an active maintenance window, LoadFocus suppresses notifications across every alert delivery path for the targeted checks, including:
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Webhook
- PagerDuty
- Opsgenie
- Discord
It also suppresses metric alerts and SSL-expiry alerts for the window. As soon as the window ends, alerting returns to normal.
For configuring the alert channels themselves, see Alert Channels: Discord, PagerDuty & Opsgenie.